Thanks to the folks on the staff who are still willing to help out, and to the members; unfortunately, the staff are stuck in the perpetual role of damage control as it's not they who make the decisions as much as the ones who have to facilitate and enforce them, they can only do so much, unfortunately, they don't make the rules nor the final decisions of the direction of this site, as they have to follow the parent company's mandates/direction and at most, voice our concerns and suggestions on our behaf...

They can and do however, try and help the members by facilitate changes for the members that they are able, as much as it is in their power to do so...I would imagine that if the current staff were the CEO of the parent company, things would run much differently for the better...The reality of the situation is that this site has been steadily losing visitors/traffic ranking both to the new direction, due to changes in the 3D hobbyist market and the response to that direction from the members especially, the long standing ones...

So in effect, the significant Exodus of members has been much more damaging to this site than they know due to it having a detrimental effect for site traffic, which in turn, effects the revenue to keep the site running...